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    Planning Helps Data Centre Move Go Smoothly 21 June, 2007 16:15:51

    Moving a data centre isn't easy under the best of circumstances. And no matter how hard you plan, there are still things that you don't think about
    It isn't often that you have access to your local neighborhood data centre, literally a few steps down the block. But I did. I live in a residential area of the US state of St. Louis called the Central West End, and I pass by the offices of the Regional Justice Information Service (REJIS) almost every day. When I learned that it was going to be moving its data centre, I knew that I had to be there for the actual move.
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    Linux, Open Source Software Pay Off for PayPal 26 March, 2007 09:20:43

    PayPal's upgrade path is 'unbelievably cost effective', ex-Visa CTO says.
    When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company's data centre surprised him. "Wait a minute," he recalls saying, "they run a payment system on Linux?"
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    Gartner, Align Thyself 14 December, 2001 12:40:43

    The company is now applying its own advice internally and using the lessons it learned in restoring alignment between its own IT department and its business side.
    When Gartner's current CIO took the helm and called attention to terminal misalignment, was it a case of the emperor's new clothes? Here's a candid look at where Gartner's been and where it's going.
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    Change in Perspective 08 September, 2001 11:00:00

    Announced in 1996, AMPlus, the IT alliance between AMP and then Andersen Consulting, was hailed as an "engine of transformation" by then CEO George Trumbull. Today, AMP is minus the "plus" and going it alone - welcome to IT@AMP
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